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by chrsw 4y ago
I found Snap to be frustating. It's trying to address a real problem but imho it fails to make life easier. As soon as something breaks or goes wrong and I have to look under the hood, my mental model of how traditional Unix software m
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by chrsw 4y ago
I feel like most of these "breakthrough" announcements are just PR for reasearchers, startups and the energy industry in general. I get it, they need the money. Everyone needs money. But they're going about it in a clickbait-
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by chrsw 4y ago
I wonder which part of this got me downvoted, the 1st or the 2nd.
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by chrsw 4y ago
I'm an American in the tech industry (shocker). I've worked in chip design, but not chip manufacturing. I don't know very much about the manufacturing side of things but I know enough to confidently say the industry is huge a
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by chrsw 4y ago
"Our web experience is so poor even aggressive nagging about a useless chatbot isn't going to make using this site feel substantially worse. Welcome."
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by chrsw 4y ago
This book was one of the reasons I studied Computer Engeering. I wanted to build things that make people's lives better.
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by chrsw 4y ago
>I'd actually force myself to write even trivial code on weekends to ensure my ability to develop didn't atrophy as a result of lack of use. I figured this was pretty common. I've only had one job where I didn't feel
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by chrsw 4y ago
Interesting difference in reaction between this interview and Lex's Douglas Murray interview.
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by chrsw 4y ago
Presentation of high level processor organization based on RISC-V. Another video on tracing RISC-V instructions as they move through the CPU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEGdtF5WxBk
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Bits of Architecture: Basic Processor Design(youtube.com)
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by chrsw 4y ago
TSMC doesn't really write chip design software. Maybe they do at some small level but that's not their bread and butter. TSMC provides IP engineers need to design chips to be built by TSMC. That IP is used by CAD tools from major
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by chrsw 4y ago
Not sure how I feel about websites blocking vistors based on their browser type. Is that just a necessary evil at this point because of all network abuse on the public internet?
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by chrsw 4y ago
I get it. Only certain customers get to have their dignity respected. It makes sense I guess, if you're a low value customer you're just not going to get the same treatmeant as valued customers.
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by chrsw 4y ago
That would be amazing. A dream come true. The Amp Hour podcast has touched on this a little bit. https://theamphour.com/577-product-lifecycle-management-with... I guess it's a pretty complicated problem. There are so m
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by chrsw 4y ago
Purchasing from McMaster is a very refreshing experience. Couldn't agree more. Loads quickly, looks the same on any browser I tried it on, I don't feel lost or like I'm wasting my time. However, it raises a quetion for me, ho
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by chrsw 4y ago
This tax migration doesn't appear to be abating the skyrocketing real estate prices and cost of living in NYC, San Francisco, Boston et al.
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by chrsw 4y ago
Older software like this runs extremely fast on my newest hardware. Switching to lightweight native apps is sometimes more of a speedup than dropping >$3000 on new a workstation class laptop. Of course, you usually need the latest hardwa
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by chrsw 4y ago
I agree Apple probably isn’t switching to RISC-V any time soon. I’m just not buying the story that they looked at it, could have done it, passed on it, and that’s that. Even in 2022 it may not be wise to start a huge RISC-V project yet for
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by chrsw 4y ago
I don't think RISC-V was ready for prime time when Apple decided to switch away from Intel, which was likely many years before the first M1 products were announced. The RISC-V spec may be stable and fine but you need a whole ecosystem
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by chrsw 4y ago
>How did Tesla succeed is GM and the oil companies were supposedly going to use politics to keep the electric car from succeeding? Maybe a different way to ask the same sort of question is: What would the auto industry look like now if t
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by chrsw 4y ago
Last time I checked the Bluetooth and BLE specs were massive documents. That's always a red flag for me. Low level tech like this should be clear, simple, concise and unambiguous. You can add complexity to the layers on top, if you mus
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by chrsw 4y ago
>You just have to re-enable that CA if you have a model that has Device Guard enabled by default. I run Linux on a used ThinkPad I got on eBay and I have no idea what this sentence means.
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by chrsw 4y ago
I think the MNT Reform project is heading in this direction. But many people don't want to lug around a laptop that looks like it's straight out of the early 00s.
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by chrsw 4y ago
Nuclear definitely has a PR problem and I don't have enough background in the science to claim how unfounded the problem actually is. But what I do have are memories of how people react to anything nuclear related. All it takes is one
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by chrsw 4y ago
I tried to grok what "free silicon upgrades" means and the closest I can get is the SoM package is user upgradable. The actual SoM replacement or upgrade module will cost money but you don't need to buy another laptop or pay
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by chrsw 4y ago
I'm probably like many other people who live in an expensive city: stuck in the middle income wasteland. Fair market housing is too expensive for me (unless I'm ok with roommates and eating canned beans every day) and I earn too m
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by chrsw 4y ago
Site not loading for me.
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by chrsw 4y ago
You think getting an unemployment check is "living like the 1%"?
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by chrsw 4y ago
No, it doesn't show up on the scale of concern over people who are skeptical of my ability and dismiss my contributions because they're blinded by bias.
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by chrsw 4y ago
It's decent. It's easy to use but it's getting a little old. And they still don't support line wrapping.

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